Name: 50/50 Margarita (Mezcal Manzanilla Margarita)
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Mezcal; 30 ml Manzanilla sherry; 15 ml Triple sec; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 7.5 ml Agave syrup; 6 drop Margarita Bitters

Ingredients

1 fl oz

Del Maguey Vida Clásico Mezcal

1 fl oz

Lustau Manzanilla Papirusa Sherry

1/2 fl oz

Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur

3/4 fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

1/4 fl oz

Agave syrup (agave nectar)

6 drop

Difford's Margarita Bitters (optional)

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill an OLD-FASHIONED GLASS.

RIM glass with Tajín seasoning (moisten outside edge with lime or orange juice and drip into Tajín).

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into pre-prepared glass filled with ice.

Garnish

No additional garnish. (The preprepared rim is garnish enough.)

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of 50/50 Margarita (Mezcal Manzanilla Margarita) contains 148 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
16.19% alc./vol. (32.38° proof)
18.3 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Manzanilla sherry — Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Gallery

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Comments & Discussion

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Simon Sedgley Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 7 months ago

We do a variant of this delicious cocktail that we call a "Grapparita"...substituting 20ml il Moscato di Nonino Grappa for the sherry...but retaining the sherry notes via just 2.5ml of aged dry flor.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 10 months ago

Such a sumptuous Margarita. We replace the 30ml of Manzanilla Sherry with 20ml of a Rutherglen (downunder) Aged Dry Flor (Apera)...at 18% ABV, it's a bigger Sherry than many.

Caspian Berggren Premium Member Commenter Appreciated Commenter 1 year ago

I like Mezcal, sherry and I like Margharitas so as soon as I had a bottle of Manzanilla sherry open I had to try this. In many ways I really like it, but I'm left with the feeling to try the cocktail completely without Mezcal just to understand all the other components. The Mezcal is very front and heavy which kind of overshadows everything on the front and mid palate. On the finish it's like all other components come rushing in to show what they've got - Cointreau, sherry, Margarita bitters all blend together beautifully in an orange creamsicle kind of way. The bitters absolutely shine on the end with their floral components but it's a shame I didn't quite get them earlier. Next time I'll probably try 2:1 blanco tequila and Mezcal just to see how it affects everything because I'd absolutely adore if I got more of that floral orange creamsicle.

Ruth Harvey Commenter Appreciated Commenter 1 year ago

MMMmmmm!

Matt Excell Commenter Appreciated Commenter 2 years ago

Should be called "Carmen Margarita" imo. She sings about Manzanilla throughout the opera and the Mezcal is a perfect smoky allegory for the cigarette factory.